Environmental Dystopia In America

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The novel All good children by Ms. Austen is a story that explores corporate domination and environmental dystopia in America, and the possible effects it could have on people and their lives. The author examines the life of a teen boy in a world with far more social controls than there are today. As well as corporations of the country exercising a great deal of influence and power on the town. The author criticizes the path that she believes humans are going down throughout the text in a variety of ways. Such criticisms includes but is not limited to: no more bees, wolves, and sharks, as well as picking and choosing how your kid will be and destroying the others. Furthermore, she also criticizes the rift between the rich and the poor; as well as separating people by the way they were born. This story has a very dystopian and separated feel, and a dark feel …show more content…
She did not even have a symbolic tent to get in. In drama, we learn that randomness is the kiss of death, but this kiss of death was a little overkill. The odds of only Max’s love interest also escaping and going to the same exact place as him is so inconceivable that there is no real point in considering it as a possibility. Max should not be using his luck to get out of the country, he should be stocking up on lottery tickets. If I was the one in charge of ending it, I would take Pepper out of the ending, she is too random for it to make sense. The ending was not significant to the story either. This is a story about environmental dystopia, but by the end of it, it is a love story. That kind of wandering when writing a text in not acceptable. If this is a story about what could happen if we destroy the environment, then it should end with that, not if we all go to Canada everything will be

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